Our
Tasks Galore
publications all demonstrate how utilizing students’ multiple senses makes a
task more appealing, captures students’ attention, and enables them to remain
focused until the task is complete.
Think of ways you can include movement and visual, auditory, and tactile
sensations into your task designs.

This
student’s short term objective is to sort two different objects. We often begin teaching an objective in an
error-free manner – the car cannot go around the tube and the heart bracelet
cannot go into the tube. Hearing the
noises, moving the objects, and watching them go in or around the tube engages
several senses and make working on the objective appealing.

We
often take worksheets and turn them into more interesting multi-modal
tasks. These math worksheets were put
into a loose leaf binder. Children see
the colors and shapes, feel the textured toy spiders, and move the materials
about as they work on their counting skills.

Many
of our students enjoy tasks they can do away from a desk.This multi-modal task has students matching
cut-out pictures to color + clothing words.To work on this goal, they get to stand up, move about, and manipulate
the clip.

This
student is learning to spell words. She
chooses the container with the matching picture. Inside, she finds the letters that will spell
that word. Next she attaches the letters
in the correct order on the card. We
find designing multi-modal tasks leads to the students’ using many senses. This type of involvement with the materials
increases students’ engagement; thereby, enhancing learning. As you begin to think about the upcoming
school year be sure to consider how you may make student learning tasks
multi-modal. Challenge yourself and your
staff to be creative and we promise you will see huge improvements in student
learning!